Category: Performance
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Chameleons or Charlatans: Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky. Three times exiled. Three times reinvented.
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Chameleons or Charlatans: The Art of Reinvention
Six artists. Six art forms. One century. One question: did any of them actually escape the machinery before it sold them back to us?
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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Case Study – Venice
Empire, trade, beauty, corruption, the sublime, the long death, and the circle closing
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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Experience Economy Eats Itself
In which we conclude that genuine experience is more resilient than the system that tries to sell it.
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all of it at the Royal Court Theatre review *****
all of it Royal Court Theatre, 11th February 2020 So we will have to wait for Alistair McDowall’s latest full length play The Glow at the Royal Court, postponed thanks to you know what. Mr McDowall was the pen, and brains, behind dystopian/sci-fi/mystery/thriller/social satires Brilliant Adventures, Talk Show, Captain Amazing,…
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Beckett Trilogy at the Jermyn Street Theatre review ****(and some other at-home Beckett stuff)
Beckett Trilogy: Krapp’s Last Tape, Eh Joe, The Old Tune Jermyn Street Theatre, 4th February 2020 Fragments: Beckett by Brook – Rough for Theatre I, Rockaby, Act Without Words II, Neither , Come and Go – VIMEO, Bouffes du Nord – 26th March 2020 Endgame/Rough for Theatre II – Digital…
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The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel at Wilton’s Music Hall review ****
The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel Wilton’s Music Hall, 16th January 2020 I was much taken with one of Told By An Idiot’s previous productions Napoleon Disrobed, which featured its co-founder and AD Paul Hunter alongside Ayesha Antoine, whose career unsurprisingly has gone fro strength to strength…
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Botticelli in the Fire at Hampstead Theatre review **
Botticelli in the Fire Hampstead Theatre, 20th November 2019 Us pensioners, well nearly in the case of the Tourist, as well as the real-dealers who haunt the matinees at which he largely frequents, are getting our eyes opened in Roxana Silbert’s first season as AD at the HT. Nothing fusty…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 